All variables that go in the STATUS_MESSAGE can now be filtered by a user
supplied function. This is done using the configuration options
variable_map and variable_imports. variable_map is a function
which accepts 2 strings (Variable, Value) and returns a
string. variable_imports runs possible imports required for
variable_map.

AmarokPidgin now has rudimentary Amarok 2 support. It does not support many of
the variables, updating your buddy icon and configuration from Amarok. To
configure you have to edit AmarokPidgin.ini, which can be found in
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/AmarokPidgin.